Slack Pricing
- Productivity pricing
- $8.75/mo at the smallest
- Free plan
Slack pricing starts at $8.75 a month, which is $105 over twelve months. There is a free plan.
Opens the vendor's own pricing page. Figures here were read from it on 9 August 2026.
Slack pricing at a glance
| Entry price | Free tier available; Pro from $7.25 per user/month billed annually |
|---|---|
| Smallest invoice | $8.75 a month, or $105 a year |
| How that is reached | Pro at $8.75 a month |
| Seat minimum | None on the entry plan |
| Free plan | Yes |
| Free trial | No trial offered |
| How it charges | freemium |
| Prices read from | The vendor's own pricing page |
| Last checked | 9 August 2026 |
Every Slack plan and what it costs
Read from the vendor's own pricing page on 9 August 2026. Charged as freemium. No free trial is offered.
| Plan | Price | Billing | What it is |
|---|---|---|---|
| Free | $0 | per month | 90 days of message history, 10 app integrations |
| Pro | $8.75 | per month | per user, paying monthly - $7.25 per user/month billed annually. Full history and unlimited apps |
| Business+ | $18 | per month | per user, paying monthly - $15 per user/month billed annually. Adds SAML SSO and compliance exports |
| Enterprise Grid | Custom | Negotiated | Multiple workspaces, advanced compliance and HIPAA support |
What Slack actually costs over a year
A monthly price is not the same thing as a monthly contract. These are the plans above resolved both ways, per seat or unit where the plan is charged that way. Where a vendor quotes only a yearly figure it is divided by twelve rather than left out, and the Quoted column says which figure the vendor actually publishes.
| Plan | Quoted | Monthly | Over 12 months |
|---|---|---|---|
| Proper user, paying monthly | per month | $8.75 | $105 |
| Business+per user, paying monthly | per month | $18 | $216 |
Cancelling Slack, and getting money back
Read from the published Slack terms on 18 September 2026. These are the terms, not legal advice: consumer law where you live may give you rights the terms do not mention.
| When you cancel | Downgrading takes effect either immediately or at the next renewal date, and you choose which when you make the change. |
|---|---|
| Changing mid-term | Downgrading credits the workspace with Slack credits equal to the unused portion of the paid plan. Those credits have no cash value, cannot be transferred, are non-refundable and expire when the paid plan ends. |
Slack help centre, change or cancel your paid plan ↗ · read 18 September 2026
Slack pricing over time
Read from 8 archived captures of the vendor's pricing page , spanning April 2016 to September 2026. Every figure below links to the capture it came from, so you can check it against the page as it stood on the day.
Pro
| Published price | Charged | Seen from | Last seen | Capture |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| $8.75 | per user | 3 September 2026 | Single capture | Archive |
7 archived captures with no price we could read
The capture exists, but the figures on it could not be extracted - usually a page that renders prices in JavaScript, or a currency selector the archive did not record. Listed rather than dropped, because a gap in a price history reads as "nothing changed" and these are not that.
- 14 April 2016 - capture - no plan name sat next to a published figure in this capture
- 21 May 2018 - capture - no plan name sat next to a published figure in this capture
- 16 December 2019 - capture - no plan name sat next to a published figure in this capture
- 6 May 2021 - capture - no plan name sat next to a published figure in this capture
- 2 September 2022 - capture - no plan name sat next to a published figure in this capture
- 11 January 2024 - capture - no plan name sat next to a published figure in this capture
- 10 May 2025 - capture - no plan name sat next to a published figure in this capture
Compiled 18 September 2026 from the Internet Archive Wayback Machine. Plan names were matched against the archived page text and the first currency-anchored figure within 160 characters was recorded, rejecting any figure with a competing plan name standing between it and the name it was matched to. The currency and the unit were read from each capture rather than assumed: captures served in a currency other than $, and captures where no plan name sat beside a figure, are listed as unread rather than dropped. Archived pages show the price as served to the archive's crawler, which may differ by region from the price you are shown.
Slack pricing against its competitors
Compared on the smallest invoice each vendor will accept, not on the advertised per-seat rate. Where a product has a seat minimum, the figure below is the minimum times the rate, because that is the cheque you would actually write.
| Product | Cheapest paid entry | Free plan | Against Slack |
|---|---|---|---|
| Discord | $2.99 a month | Yes | −$5.76 a month (−66%) |
| Microsoft Teams | $4 a month | Yes | −$4.75 a month (−54%) |
| Slack | $8.75 a month | Yes | This product |
Which Slack plan should you buy?
| Your situation | Recommended | Why |
|---|---|---|
| A small team wanting to try it | Free | Works well, but only the last 90 days of messages are searchable, which is the real constraint. |
| You need your message history to be permanent | Pro | $7.25 per user billed annually. History, not features, is why almost everyone upgrades. |
| You need SAML SSO or compliance exports | Business+ | $15 per user billed annually, and unavoidable if legal or IT mandate either. |
| You run several business units, or need HIPAA support | Enterprise Grid | Multiple connected workspaces under central administration. |
| You already pay for Microsoft 365 | Consider Teams instead | Teams is included in a licence you already hold, so Slack is a second bill for messaging. |
| You are running a community rather than a company | Do not buy Slack | Discord is free, keeps unlimited history and charges nothing per person. |
The 90-day cliff
Slack’s free tier does not delete your messages, it hides them. Everything older than 90 days becomes unsearchable until you upgrade, at which point it reappears. This is the single most effective conversion mechanic in business software, and it catches teams roughly one quarter after adoption, usually while looking for a decision nobody wrote down anywhere else.
What the app directory is actually for
The reason engineering organisations defend Slack is not the chat. It is that deploys, alerts, incidents, pull requests, support tickets and customer signups can all land in the channel where the relevant people already are, with enough interactivity to act without switching tools. That is a different product from a messaging app, and it is what makes migration painful once established.
Slack Connect changes the external calculation
Shared channels with clients, agencies and suppliers work well enough that many companies now run whole relationships in them instead of email. Microsoft Teams can do this, but the cross-tenant experience is materially clumsier, and for agencies in particular that difference alone justifies the licence.
Pricing notes
Pro is $8.75 per user per month paying monthly, or $7.25 billed annually. Business+ is $18 or $15 on the same basis. Slack also runs frequent introductory discounts of around 50% for the first three months on new teams, which is worth checking at signup but should not be modelled as your ongoing price. Since the Salesforce acquisition, expect steadily tighter CRM integration to be part of the enterprise pitch.
Slack questions, answered
- Does Slack have a free plan or free trial?
- Slack has a free plan. No free trial is offered.
- Can I self-host Slack?
- No. Slack is a hosted service only, so your data lives on the vendor's infrastructure.
Opens the vendor's own pricing page. Figures here were read from it on 9 August 2026.
What this profile is based on
Nobody here has used Slack. This profile is desk research: prices read from the pages cited below, on the dates shown , from one primary source , with 2 captures taken by us . How we research a profile.
Where Slack appears on this site
- Another profile Discord names it as a competitor
- Another profile Microsoft Teams names it as a competitor
Counts pages on this site that name the product by choice - price guides, pricing question pages, deal records and other profiles. Category and directory indexes list everything automatically and are not counted.
Provenance and freshness
What has changed
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August 2026
- Per-user pricing verified, annual and monthly
- Added plan picker, verdicts and switching-cost breakdown
Sources & verification
Facts on this page were read from the sources below on the dates shown. Where a vendor does not publish a figure, we record it as not disclosed rather than estimating it.
- Slack pricing - checked 9 August 2026
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